Per @copyrightandtec: Cengage Learning, one of the major textbook publishers, announced last month that it has accumulated a million subscribers to the subscription college text content service, Cengage Unlimited, that it launched for the Fall 2018 semester. Cengage provides a calculator that students can use to determine whether they can save money by subscribing to Cengage Unlimited based on the actual courses they are taking. It’s positioning the service as an antidote to the spiraling costs of textbooks.
“It almost requires building two parallel organizations.” B2C lifestyle publishers are trying their hands at developing B2B products to grow consumer revenues -> Lifestyle titles, including Vogue, Architectural Digest and Food & Wine will launch B2B editorial products aimed at professionals.
Google has launched a “subscriptions lab” in partnership with the Local Media Association and FTI Consulting, a six-month program designed to help local news publishers develop their reader revenue operations
How India track crowds of 50m people leveraging AI and IOT -> The Kumbh Mela in India, the largest congregation of humans, had >50m devotees taking a dip in the Sangam waters. AI helped w traffic, security, garbage, crowd surveillance via @indiatoday
Have you ever wanted to just jump into a sketch? Morpholio has enabled that with AR SketchWalk, an augmented reality application that lets you walk around inside the images you create, like cruising through real-world blueprints
This prototype software shows how AI is going to augment art -> Nvidia uses machine learning to turn rough doodles into realistic landscapes in seconds, and it could be used by everyone from game developers to landscape designers.
Using a dataset of 306 chorale harmonizations by Bach, Coconet is trained to restore Bach’s music from fragments: we take a piece from Bach, randomly erase some notes, and ask the model to guess the missing notes from context.
Miriam Posner writes about the “supply chain”—the vast network of factories, warehouses, and shipping conduits through which products flow—and how it affects modern workers.
These IT issues in healthcare automation are super scary and need to be addressed (but going analog is not the answer) -> The U.S. government has spent $36 billion digitizing medical records for better, safer, and cheaper health care. Now the system is a mess.
Andrea Hippeau recently discussed how to sell on Amazon without totally surrendering control to the platform, and how to identify the right retail partner.
China Literature, the publicly-listed e-books platform of Chinese internet giant Tencent, said its gross profit rose 23 percent to $372.7 million in 2018, when it acquired Chinese film and TV studio New Classics Media for $2.25 billion.
Per @pkafka, Apple doesn’t want to run its own video service: It wants to run a video store. All those shows it is creating are meant to get you to buy more Showtime. -> Apple’s TV plans, explained. (Spoiler: Apple isn’t taking on Netflix yet.)
Snap Inc. plans to announce its long-rumored gaming platform for developers next month. The mobile game platform, internally codenamed “Project Cognac,” will feature a handful of games from outside developers designed to work specifically in the Snapchat app.
Ever wanted lunch with an awesome Book Agent or rockstar Editor? See these CharityBuzz auctions with Jennifer Weltz (President of Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency) or Kristine Puopolo (Editor of 3 Pulitzer prize-winning books) to benefit Women’s Media Group’s fellowships/scholarship program via @WMG_NYC
RT @diversebooks College students and recent grads looking to work in publishing — WNDB is accepting applications for 2019 Internship Grants! Of the past 33 interns awarded grants, 22 are employed in the industry.
Please join us for our annual POC in Pub Town Hall with We Need Diverse Books. And bring a book by a POC for a book exchange! *This meeting is only open to POC Publishing professionals. Must RSVP with your company email.* via @PocPub
As members of the kidlit community, we want to make a stand against hatred and Islamophobia, and show our solidarity with the victims and affected Muslim communities. The auctions and raffles on this page will support the United for Christchurch Mosque Shootings fundraiser, which aims to “help with the immediate, short-term needs of the grieving families.” The auctions and raffles will close March 27th at 11:59 PM via@KidlitForCC
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